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#Update | We’re Moving! Find us on LinkedIn (https://t.co/E8tWsQksWi) and Instagram (https://t.co/hQpLk0xVOB).

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#Update | We’re Moving! Find us on LinkedIn (https://t.co/E8tWsQksWi) and Instagram (https://t.co/hQpLk0xVOB).

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#Update | We’re Moving! Find us on LinkedIn (https://t.co/E8tWsQksWi) and Instagram (https://t.co/hQpLk0xVOB).

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#VDF | Last Friday, CIDP director @__michaelmurphy presented our 2025-2026 VDFs, LTC Currie, Col Forbes, & Col Gauthier, with a farewell token of our appreciation. The CIDP would like to thank this year's VDFs from @CanadianForces and @us_awc for their contributions to the CIDP.

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Drawing on his research at the intersection of technology, ideology, and extremism, he explores how AI-driven changes to economic systems, institutional authority, and social relations can create new forms of grievance and reshape the future landscape of political violence.

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#MemberHighlights | In a new article for @CTCWP, Dr. Yannick Veilleux-Lepage, Associate Professor at RMC, examines how AI may generate the conditions for political violence beyond its direct misuse.
https://t.co/gkHsxR5Tea

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#SecurityPodcast | Tune into episode 21 of On Defence & Security: “Is Artificial Intelligence Going to be a Threat to our Safety?” CIDP host @AmarAmarasingam sits down with Yannick Veilleux-Lepage & David Wells to discuss AI's security challenges.
https://t.co/3jOPWzvjGH

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#Event | The CIDP would like to thank Col David Forbes from @Canadianforces for sharing his expertise and research on counter-drone measures. We also extend many thanks to all those who attended in person and virtually.

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#Event | Col David Forbes, on counter-drone capabilities, explains how counter-UAS procedures will become part of standardized training within the armed forces. This will be necessary to adapt to the integration of drones into basic warfare.

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#Event | Speaker, Col Forbes explains how militaries have adapted to the vulnerabilities that drones have sought to exploit. Drones are unable to bring the creativity that crewed platforms bring, which is why they will not make regular forces irrelevant, but will be integrated.

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#Event | Our speaker, Col Forbes, says that drones have allowed for smaller forces to impose high cost against militaries with traditional capacities. This is increasing challenges in asymmetric warfare, meaning traditional armed forces must not ignore the changes drones bring.

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#Event | Col Forbes, on counter-drone capabilities, explains that, with the rapid evolution of drones and countermeasures, analysis has lagged due to frequent changes. Therefore, he argues that drones will change warfare but will not make traditional combat power obsolete.

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#Event | Today, the CIDP welcomes Col David Forbes, our Visiting Defence Fellow from the @CanadianForces, for a presentation titled “Lies in the Skies: Limits of the Drone Warfare Evolution and the Rise of Countermeasures”.

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In this talk, Col Forbes will examine how drones represent an evolution in warfare, not a revolution, and call for a focus on counter-drone capabilities.

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#IDPS #Securitytalk | Join us tomorrow for “Lies in the Skies: Limits of the Drone Warfare Evolution and the Rise of Countermeasures” with Col Dave Forbes, our VDF from the @Canadianforces.
Link: https://t.co/klmdmhdziK

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#ContactReport | With the recent launch of Canada’s first Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS), Will Strickey breaks down the strategy’s policies, benefits, challenges, and what it might mean for the country’s defence and industrial sectors.
Link: https://t.co/ccigRfroDp

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In this talk, Col Forbes will examine how drones represent an evolution in warfare, not a revolution, calling for a necessity to focus on counter-drone capabilities.

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#IDPS #Securitytalk | Join us next week for “Lies in the Skies: Limits of the Drone Warfare Evolution and the Rise of Countermeasures” with Col David Forbes, our Visiting Defence Fellow from the @Canadianforces.
https://t.co/klmdmhdziK

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#PolicyBrief | Our latest policy brief, Military-to-Military Ties and the Future of Canada-U.S. Security Cooperation, written by Dr. @sanjidaamin and Dr. @svhlatky, reframes Canada-U.S. defence cooperation through a sovereignty‑first lens.
Link: https://t.co/SWttxOdSet

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The session will examine how governance, coordination, and integrated civilian–military planning are critical to strengthening Canada’s health system resilience in times of crisis.

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#IDPS #Partner | Join us on May 12th for “Governing Readiness: Health System Leadership in an Era of Sustained Conflict” with Dr. Colleen Forestier and Dr. David Pedlar, drawing on insights from Exercise Canada Paratus.
Link: https://t.co/pYPnA51keg